Texas Man Injured as Carnival Sign Collapses
Kevin Sattler a 41 year old Beeville Texas employee of Pride of Texas Carnival was injured at the Finney County Fairgrounds when a overhead lighted sign fell during setup for the Super Slide ride. He was listed in good condition at St Catherine Hospital with a cracked sternum four broken ribs and a collapsed lung. Garden City police and emergency responders aided at the scene. The cause of the collapse was not known.
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Texas
Garden City
Mike Utz
Finney County Fairgrounds
Kevin Sattler
Beeville
Pride of Texas Carnival
Finney County Fair Carnival
Finney County Ems
Garden City Fire Department
Carnival
Sattler
St. Catherine Hospital
Utz
Retirement village to host concert by Larry Hannon
Larry Hannon a cowboy balladeer from Garden City will perform at Garden Valley Retirement Village located at 1505 E Spruce St. The public is invited to a 7 p.m. musical program at no charge.
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Larry Hannon
Garden City
Garden Valley Retirement Village
Spruce St
New Art Exhibit Opens at Commerce Bank Gallery
The Sandhills Art Association sponsoring Roark as featured monthly artist. Exhibit runs at Commerce Bank Gallery 215 N Main St in the lobby west entrance from today until August 31. Viewing hours are 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Mondays through Fridays.
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The
Sandhills Artssociation
Roark
Commerce Bank
N. Main St
USD 457 Enrollment Schedule for 2006-07
USD 457 announces enrollment for the 2006-07 year with campus hours for different student groups. Elementary and intermediate students sign up 8 am to 4 pm on Wednesday, high school juniors and seniors 8 am to noon Wednesday, sophomores 1 to 4 pm and freshmen 8 am to noon Thursday, and new district students 1 to 4 pm Thursday. Specific school windows and phone numbers are provided for Kenneth Henderson Middle, Abe Hubert Middle, and other details.
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USD
Kenneth Henderson
KDOT to Repair Highway 28 and K23 Work Zone
Kansas Department of Transportation announced work on highway 28 and Kansas Highway 23 from the Finney Lane county line to Dighton city limits starting August 14. LaFarge North America will complete the project in about a week with pilot cars guiding traffic through the K23 work zone.
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Finney Lane
Dighton
Kansas Department of Transportation
LaFarge North America
KDOT
Primary voting tech rollout reaches rural Kansas
In Morris County and other rural areas Kansas voters face a switch from hand counted paper ballots to touch screen systems under a 2002 federal act. Officials report low early turnout as counties adapt from 12 to five polling sites with some remaining hand counts.
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Council Grove
Michelle Garrett
Morris County
U.S. House
Kansas House
Garrett
Gray County
Kansas
Bonnie Swartz
Johnson County
Brian Newby
Newby
Republic County
Chase County
Cottonwood Falls
June Morgan
Thornburgh
Cheyenne
Comanche
Decatur
Gove
Mitchell
Morris
Jewell County
Burr Oak
Jewell
Mankato
Carla Waugh
Holcomb man arrested in Wichita on child abuse allegations
Finney County Sheriff Kevin Bascue says Juan Pablo Perez twenty from 500 Scotty Lane Apt. 6 was arrested at Wesley Medical Center in Wichita after a hospital social worker alerted authorities July 27 of possible abuse. The 3 month old infant suffered a brain concussion and was airlifted to Wesley. Perez remains in Finney County Jail as investigators pursue the case. The baby’s condition was not officially released.
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Holcomb
Wichita
Finney County
Kevin Bascue
Juan Pablo Perez
Scotty Lane
Apt. 6
Wesley Medical Center
Finney County Sheriff’s Office
Bascue
Perez
St. Catherine Hospital
Wichita Police Department
Sheriff's Office
State drug trade crossroads shift of trafficking routes
Officials say Kansas highways are now major drug corridors at I 70 and I 135 with Salina tracing a history of large seizures. Lt. Kirk Simone notes annual gains in marijuana and cocaine seizures, plus meth heroin and cash. Rural areas see rising trafficking as cases from Parsons Emporia Coffeyville surface in a widening network.
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Salina
Kirk Simone
Kansas Highway Patrol
Simone
Kansas
Parsons
Emporia
Coffeyville
Rich Nitsch
FBI
Field Intelligence
Kansas City
Kansas Water Congress to Host Summer Conference in Hays
The Kansas Water Congress and Kansas State University Agricultural Research Center in Hays will host the annual summer water congress on Aug 10 and 11 at the research center. The event features talks on water quality, dam construction and rehabilitation, federal reservoir economics, and conservation reserve enhancement, plus tours of the KSU Experiment Station Sternberg Museum and Hays water plant. A legislative panel on the second day includes David Pope, Tracy Streeter, Tom Stiles, and John Grothaus. Registration costs $75/$85 for members and $85/$95 for non members before and after Wednesday respectively.
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Kansas Water Congress
Kansas State University Agricultural Research Center
Hays
Dave Bronn
Kansas
Congress
Kansas State University Experiment Station
Sternberg
City of Hays
Brenn
David Pope
Kansas Division of Water Resources
Tracy Streeter
Kansas Water Office
Tom Stiles
Kansas Department of Health and Environment
John Grothaus
US Army Corp of Engineers
Water Congress
Ksu
Edu
1st Infantry Division Returns Home to Fort Riley After 10 Years
Fort Riley hosts about 2,000 civilians and several hundred soldiers as the 1st Infantry Division returns from Germany. Ceremony featured marching bands, speeches, and heat injuries, with Gov. Kathleen Sebelius in attendance. The division headquarters relocation boosts Fort Riley’s status and population.
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Fort Riley
1St Infantry Division
Kansas
Germany
Cavalry
Gordon Kirkman
Pittsburgh
Kirkman
Iraq
Bill McKale
Dennis Hardy
Kenneth Hunzeker
Hunzeker
Carter Ham
Kathleen Sebelius
Congress
Sebelius
Pentagon
Europe
United States
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Higway
Jim Barnett
Robin Jennison
Healy
Ken Canfield
Overland Park
National Center On Fathering
GOP
State Board of Education
Sandy Praeger
Ron Thornburgh
Floyd Chenoweth
Johnson City
Stanton County Prairie Pines
Chenoweth
WPD
Drug Trade Crossroads
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